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Thoinot Arbeau

1520 - 1595

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Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1520 – July 23, 1595). Tabourot is most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thoinot Arbeau has received more than 95,449 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Thoinot Arbeau is the 1,485th most popular writer (down from 1,406th in 2019), the 1,728th most popular biography from France (down from 1,606th in 2019) and the 216th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thoinot Arbeau ranks 1,485 out of 7,302Before him are Gottfried August Bürger, Guido Adler, Ono no Komachi, Tomi Ungerer, Avienus, and Adam de la Halle. After him are Allen Carr, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Lord Alfred Douglas, Evelyn Waugh, Marianne Weber, and Heiner Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1520, Thoinot Arbeau ranks 11Before him are Barbara Radziwiłł, Koca Sinan Pasha, Christophe Plantin, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Matthias Flacius, and Alessandro Farnese. After him are Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Pontus De la Gardie, Madeleine of Valois, Aben Humeya, Moses Isserles, and Gaspar Becerra. Among people deceased in 1595, Thoinot Arbeau ranks 10Before him are Mohammad Khodabanda, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Archduke Ernest of Austria, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, António, Prior of Crato, and John Hawkins. After him are Jeremias II of Constantinople, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony, Pasquale Cicogna, Magnus, Duke of Östergötland, and Faizi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Thoinot Arbeau ranks 1,728 out of 6,770Before him are Adam de la Halle (1245), Fernand Cormon (1845), René Grousset (1885), Jacques de Vitry (1170), Pierre Balmain (1914), and Antoine Barnave (1761). After him are John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Alix of France (1151), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Georges Delerue (1925), and Thierry Mugler (1948).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Thoinot Arbeau ranks 216Before him are Jacques Cazotte (1719), Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), Francis Jammes (1868), René Char (1907), Tomi Ungerer (1931), and Adam de la Halle (1245). After him are Georges Duhamel (1884), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Henry de Montherlant (1895), Louise Labé (1524), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), and Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613).